The Social Security (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) (Deductions) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Community Charges Regulations

7.—(1) For the heading of regulation 2 of the Community Charges Regulations there is substituted the following heading—

“Deductions from income support or jobseeker’s allowance”.

(2) Regulation 2 of the Community Charges Regulations(1) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(3) In paragraph (1) after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there are inserted the words “or jobseeker’s allowance”.

(4) In paragraph (2)(e) after the words “income support” there are inserted the words “or jobseeker’s allowance”.

(5) In paragraph (4)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a)—

(i) after the words “income support” in the first and last place where they occur, there are inserted the words “or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”;

(ii) in head (i), after the words “paragraph 1(1)(e)” there are inserted the words “or, as the case may be, paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(2)”; and

(iii) in head (ii), after the words “income support” in the first place where they occur there are inserted the words “or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”, and after the words “paragraph 1(3)(c)” there are inserted the words “or, as the case may be, paragraph 1(3)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (a) there is inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) whether there is sufficient entitlement to contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance to enable the Secretary of State to make any deduction, and for this purpose the adjudication officer shall determine that there is sufficient entitlement if the amount of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance payable before any deduction under these regulations is equal to or more than one-third of the age-related amount applicable to the debtor under section 4(1)(a) of the Jobseekers Act;”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (b) after the words “income support” there are inserted the words “or jobseeker’s allowance”.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/1026 and 1993/2113.

(2)

S.I. 1996/207.